“Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than He went through before.”

—  Richard Baxter

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 11.

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English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer 1615–1691

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